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145 pages of results. 331. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , the legend as it stands displays some anomalies, not least because it ignores the male sex drive. It is unlikely the Huns would have simply butchered so many young females. It seems to me that because they were classified by the Church as virgins they were not human but developed from humanisation of a divine tale in the pre-Christian period ... the tombs of the apostles in Rome. They were duly installed as martyrs. However, the legend as it stands displays some anomalies, not least because it ignores the male sex drive. It is unlikely the Huns would have simply butchered so many young females. It seems to me that because they were classified by the Church as virgins ...
332. Deluges [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Frazer give us a Jewish folktale to conclude our instances of sky-associations for the Flood of Noah: Now the Deluge was caused by the male waters from the sky meeting the female waters which issued forth from the ground. The holes in the sky by which the upper waters escaped were made by God when he removed stars out of the constellation ... nova, before the deluge struck. Frazer give us a Jewish folktale to conclude our instances of sky-associations for the Flood of Noah: Now the Deluge was caused by the male waters from the sky meeting the female waters which issued forth from the ground. The holes in the sky by which the upper waters escaped were made by God when ...
... semi-tropical insects to cometary visitations; how I have endeavoured to establish the principle that human and all kinds of life were introduced by cometary intercourse, with the volcano as the female agency. If those deductions on the evidence brought forward are justified it must also follow that there are on occasions planets which have come to a sudden and violent termination ... and falls headlong like Lucifer, whence its usefulness in the system of the universe will be continued to the end. Such may be, and appears to be, the normal existence of a planet, but on the other hand we recognise that Nature is profligate in her arrangements, and that exceptions to all laws and rules are not uncommon ...
334. Thoth Vol IV, No 6: March 31, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... theme of "casting out the devil". Accordingly, various rites were designed to continue indefinitely the "punishment" of a guilty god or goddess, the male or female form of the chaos monster (witch- burning being the most familiar instance). This is only one variation on the scapegoat principle and that, too, is ... on the theme of "casting out the devil". Accordingly, various rites were designed to continue indefinitely the "punishment" of a guilty god or goddess, the male or female form of the chaos monster (witch- burning being the most familiar instance). This is only one variation on the scapegoat principle and that, too ...
335. F. X. Kugler -- Almost a Catastrophist [Journals] [SIS Review]
... catastrophic event in our history .. . in our near-sighted way of looking at the stratigraphical column, we tend to forget that these recent events, if considered on the normal geological time-scale, were virtually instantaneous and certainly catastrophic. .. . The final conclusion I come to therefore is that, though the theories of plate tectonics now furnish ... , disdained half of the gleam of her face, made herself dark (4 ) and jumped aloft. For she would not use rays borrowed from the Light-bearer of the male sex, nor drink sisterly brilliance from her opposite, Phaėthon. From the flock of the Pleiades, standing in a circle and shouting, there surged across the seven-belted ...
336. The Laughing Gods [Books] [de Grazia books]
... in bondage to Hephaestus. Poseidon is here a representation of Earth. He is the masculine of the Earth-Goddess. Before the Olympians came the Earth-gods. The Earth Gods were female, as Erinyes in Aeschylus' Orestes. In Sophocle's Antigone, the chorus chants of Gaia, "the eldest of the gods, the eternal and inexhaustible earth" ... shuddered all illimitable Earth, the sheer heads of mountains." We quote Reade's conclusions. ". .. the axis of the earth was forced out of its hitherto normal alignment with the stars at a season shortly after the summer solstice... the displacing force was a sustained one rather than a shock... it was ...
337. Saul, David and Solomon [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 73]. Solomon, and possibly David before him, must have received Egyptian backing for his empire building. It appears this did not come from Shishak. It was normal for a nation desiring another nation's support to give a princess as wife to the brother or vassal king and to provide money (gold) as further inducement. We ... early in the reign of Solomon. After his return to Edom, Hadad would have to rebuild his army before he could worry Israel, if in fact ALL the adult male population of Edom was destroyed' by Joab. This rebuilding could have taken 5-10 years, or even a generation, and it must have ended after the continued use ...
338. The Beginning of Time [Journals] [Aeon]
... "the year" was a synonym for "time." This synonymity is also apparent in Hebrew where "yom" (or "yowm"), which is normally taken to mean "day," has the additional meaning of "year" but also "time." (48) So, similarly, in Egypt. ... ) This symbol, a circle with a dot in the center, with which the readers of this journal should be quite familiar, also known to mythologists as "the male seed-point or bindu," (56) was extensively used by the ancient Egyptians as one of their numerous hieroglyphs. It stood, among other things, for the ...
339. The Death of Heracles [Journals] [Aeon]
... Stuttgart, 1893-1940), p. 590. 62. The cults of Heracles, Mars, and Melqart share another important feature in common- namely, a prohibition of females. This is reported for the cult of Heracles in general, see Farnell, op. cit., p. 162; for Mars Silvanus in Italy see G ... by a form of symbolism common in ancient religion, represented the god himself...Its subjects might be taken from any part of the Greek heroic tradition; but normally the play portrayed some traditional story which was treated as the Aition or origin of some existing religious practice. For example, if it was the custom on a certain ...
340. The Origin of Language [Journals] [Aeon]
... whistles and an increased importance of tonal inflections. Some of the most complex languages are found among the more primitive societies. But no matter how complex a language, (normal) children born to its speakers readily learn it at an equally early age in all societies. The ease of acquisition is an innate ability, an ability receptive to ... have no real connection to the objects being referred to. The potential for sound formation is innate, but the meanings of the elements of a language must be learned. Male mandrill. (After Paul Gervais.) Nonhuman primates are versatile, and among the most vocal, in animal communication, showing many features characteristic, but falling short ...
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